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Out of Doors
The first of a series of eight programmes providing information about some of the major outdoor pastimes
1: Dinghy Sailing
Introduced by JOHN EARLE
Produced by Tom Salmon
Broadcast on May 31 (Study)
Questions, to be answered in a programme on August 24, should be sent to Out of Doors. BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Earle
Produced By:
Tom Salmon

Everyday German by Radio
Twenty programmes for those with a basic knowledge of the language.
19: Hagedorn sucht seine Braut
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Last Monday's broadcast (Study)
A book and records are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sabine Michael
Introduced By:
Dieter Geissler

Fifteen lessons in spoken Mandarin for those who followed Introduction to Chinese or who already have some knowledge of the language.
Programme 11
Introduced by LUCIA LIU with the help of TERRY CHANG
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and record are available
This week's Study: page 35

Contributors

Introduced By:
Lucia Liu
Unknown:
Terry Chang

Question Session
Answers to motoring problems from
GEORGE EYLES , Director of Tests, Institute of Advanced Motorists
JOE LOWREY , technical writer on automobile engineering
Bill PAULSON , Motoring Correspondent of the Evening News
Chairman, BILL HARTLEY together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Produced by James Pestridge

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eyles
Unknown:
Joe Lowrey
Unknown:
Bill Paulson
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
James Pestridge

with Ken Dodd
JOHN LAURIE , PATRICIA HAYES
GRAHAM STARK, JUDITH CHALMERS
DODDY's DIDDY ORCHESTRA
Directed by GEOFF ALDERSON
Script by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Broadcast on Dec. 10. 1967 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Directed By:
Geoff Alderson
Script By:
Eddie Braben
Script By:
Ken Dodd
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

by Lope de Vega translated and adapted for radio by Margaret Etall
with Trader Faulkner, Rosalind Shanks, Francis de Wolff

The action of the play takes place in the city of Toledo and the small farming town of Ocana in central Spain in July and August 1406.

Music arranged by Jon Rollason and performed by him and members of the cast

Contributors

Unknown:
Lope de Vega
Unknown:
Margaret Etall
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
Gomez Manrique Peter Williams
Music arranged by:
Jon Rollason
Music performed by:
Jon Rollason and members of the cast
Producer:
John Gibson
Ines:
Maureen Beck
Costanza:
Jill Cary
Casilda:
Rosalind Shanks
A Priest:
Lockwood West
Peribanez:
Trader Faulkner
Bartolo:
John Wyse
Leonardo:
Jon Rollason
Lujan:
Leonard Fenton
Don Fadrique, Comendador of Ocana:
Francis De Wolff
Constable of Castile:
Victor Lucas
King Enrique III:
John Pullen
A Councillor:
Ralph Truman
A Painter:
Haydn Jones
Benito:
Antony Viccars
Gil:
Wilfrid Carter
Anton:
David Brierley
Bias:
Michael Deacon
Mendo:
Nicholas Edmtt
Belardo:
Peter Pratt
Queen:
Ann Murray
Gomez Manrique:
Peter Williams

A special Irish Edition
TERESA MCGONAGLE and JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH present personalities, impressions. topics, and ideas collected during a recent visit to the Republic of Ireland
The Rug by EDNA O'BRIEN abridged by Virginia Browne -Wilkinson
Read by SIOBHAN McKENNA

Contributors

Unknown:
Teresa McGonagle
Unknown:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Unknown:
Edna O'Brien
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne
Read By:
Siobhan McKenna

ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH. PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and KENNETH HORNE in the chair
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower
Regent Street, London. S.W.I

Contributors

Unknown:
Adamson Norman Hackforth.
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Produced By:
John Cassels

by John Van Druten adapted for radio by Peggy Wells
with Ronald Lewis and Barbara Murray

Miss Holroyd: '...I sit in the Underground sometimes, or in buses, and look at the people next to me and I think: "What would you say if I told you I was a witch?"'

(Ronald Lewis and Barbara Murray are in 'The Flip Side' at the Apollo Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
John van Druten
Adapted by:
Peggy Wells
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Gillian Holroyd:
Barbara Murray
Anthony Henderson:
Ronald Lewis
Miss Holroyd:
Hester Paton Brown
Nicholas Holroyd:
David Brierley
Sidney Redlitch:
George Howe

Anthony Lawrence the BBC's Correspondent in the Far East
Anthony Lawrence recalls the first year he spent in the Far East-1957-a year in which his base, Singapore, ceased to be an outpost of Empire and became, with its neighbour Malaya, an independent state; and a year in which much else happened both in the Far East and to Anthony Lawrence.
Produced by Neil Hepburn

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Lawrence
Unknown:
Anthony Lawrence
Unknown:
Anthony Lawrence.
Produced By:
Neil Hepburn

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